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Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1987;
then he worked as engineer at
KBOM;
transferred to
RKKE;
was selected as cosmonaut on 24.02.1998;
OKP
(cosmonaut basic training) until 11/1999; hobbies: Mountaineering (in
2007 he climbed the Kilimanjaro).